4 . The moment happened 30 years ago but it was still fresh in my memory. I was a college freshman and had ______ up most of the night before, laughing and talking with friends. Now just before my first ______ of the day my eyelids were feeling heavier and heavier and my head was drifting down to my desk to make my textbook a ______. A few minutes’ nap (小睡) time before class couldn’t ______ , I thought.

BOOM! I lifted my head suddenly and my eyes opened wider than saucers. I looked around with my heart beating ______ trying to find the cause of the ______. My young professor was looking at me with a boyish smile on his face. He had dropped the textbooks he was carrying onto his desk ______. “Good morning!” he said still______. “I am glad to see everyone is______. Now let’s get started.”

For the next hour I wasn’t sleepy at all. It wasn’t from the ______ of my professor’s textbook alarm clock. It was instead from the ______ discussion he led. With knowledge and good ______ he made the material come ______. His insight was full of both wisdom and loving-kindness. And the enthusiasm and joy that he   ______ with were contagious (有感染力的). I ______ the classroom not only wide awake, but a little livelier and a little ______.

I learned something far more important than not ______ in class that day too. I learned that if you are going to do something in this life, do it well, and do it with ______. What a wonderful place it would be if all of us did our work joyously and well. Don’t sleepwalk your way through ______ then. Wake up! Let your love fill your work and study. Life is too ______ not to live it well.

5 . On our way home from school my kid and I shared each other our high and low part of the day. My 12-year-old, Karington, told me her _________ for a classmate with special need. This _________ action brought my tears flowing.

Her story started with, “Mommy, I made a teacher _________ today.” I didn’t know why my first thought was a _________ one. I definitely shouldn’t have _________ her. The rest of her story went like this...

“There’s a boy in my class with hyperactivity (多动症). Everyone _________ him because he does strange things. Today he fell to the _________ I looked around and all these kids were laughing, so I walked up to him and _________ with him. The class stopped laughing. A _________ was walking by the open door and saw my __________. She walked into the room towards me, bursting into __________. She held me up and gave me the tightest __________ ever and kept saying what a __________ girl I was.”

My voice was __________ by a lump (梗) in my throat. Tears flooded my eyes; I __________ them so I could see the road. I couldn’t __________. How could I find the right words to __________ just how proud I was? She looked at me, saw the tears flowing and knew. I didn’t need __________.

There is not a thing my child could do that would make me much __________! Nothing is better than standing up for what is __________ and showing compassion towards others.

6 . I became a magician by accident. When I was nine I learned how to make a coin disappear. At first the magic wasn't any good; it was just a bad _________ I spent hours each day practising in the bathroom, running through the secret _________ in front of the mirror.

One day I made the coin disappear on the playground. What a miracle(奇迹)! Dozens of people were _________. I showed the coin to everyone. Then it disappeared. The kids _________ and laughed. It was great. Everyone went _________.

The teacher on duty crossed the playground to _________ more about it. Mrs. Tanner was a(n) _________ woman who controlled her class with an appetite for punishing students. She marched toward me and _________ to know what was going on.

The coin disappeared for her too. “Do it again,” she said angrily, and I did. My hands were _________, but when I looked up, everything had __________. I would remember the look on her face — the look of wide-eyed, open-mouthed __________.

I kept seeing my teacher's face — the strict look __________ into great wonder and joy all at once. The kids' too. They had been __________ immediately from an indifferent(冷漠的)pack of creatures into real people. When the __________   of worry or pain had gone, the faces that shone without it were amazing.

Magicians get to see people at their very best, and in this transformation we can see what can only be described as real, actual __________.

7 . I was in a department store with my mom, aunt, and my sister a few days ago. I was a/an _________ , so usually I am one of those people who do not like to go shopping with my family. However, I decided this time to _________ them.

My aunt and I were _________ for some things to buy for our family when I noticed two _________ on the side. One of them had a little girl sitting on it with her _________ nearby and the other one was not _________ . So, I decided to sit down. While I was _________ my own thing there, _________ , I noticed that the family were not in front of the _________ any more. I saw the girl __________ and look around for her family. She came back and I saw her in __________ , crying.

I knew that she __________ her family and was all by herself. Now, I am sure that almost everybody has been lost in a department store or __________ big before and we all know that feeling. __________ I went up to her and asked what was the __________ and she told me she was lost.

I __________ her a smile card I just bought. I could see the __________ look on her face when she read it. Then I went up to the customer service center and __________ to them what happened. People there promised to __________ her. After I left, the little girl's parents went there and I could see them looking around for the person who had found their daughter and given her the __________ . They didn't know it was a teenager who did it.

8 . A farmer grew some vegetables in his garden. One day his wife was ill and he had no money. He had to sell some cabbages and carrots in the market. The next morning he took two baskets of vegetables to town, but it was raining hard that afternoon and there were few people in the street. When his vegetables were sold out, it was dark. He bought some medicine and hurried to his village.

On his way home he saw a person lying on the ground. He placed his baskets on the ground and was going to help the person to get up. At that time he found it was a dead man and there was much blood on his body. He was so afraid that he ran away quickly, without taking his baskets.

The next afternoon the farmer was sent to the police station. Having shown the baskets, an officer asked, “Are these yours?” “Yes, sir.” The farmer answered timidly. “Have you killed the man?” “No, no, sir.” The farmer said in a hurry. “When did you see the dead man?” “About seven last evening.” “Did you see who killed the man?” “No, sir.” The officer brought out a knife and asked, “Have you seen it yet?” “No, sir.” The officer became angry and told the policemen to beat him up and sent him into prison.

That evening the officer went on trying. Pointing to the knife, he asked again, “Have you seen it yet?” “Yes, sir.” The officer was happy and asked, “When and where?” “I saw it here this afternoon, sir.”